1852 Chinese Proverbs
1. 
"I heard" is good; "I saw" is better.
2. 
A bad man talks about what he has eaten and drunk -- a good man about what he has seen and heard.
3. 
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
4. 
A bad worker quarrels with his tools.
5. 
A bad workman blames his tools.
6. 
A bar of iron continually ground becomes a needle.
7. 
A base person often thinks of a man of honor as mean as himself.
8. 
A beautiful bird is the only kind we cage.
9. 
A beautiful flower is incomplete without its leaves.
10. 
A big tree attracts the gale.
11. 
A big tree attracts the wind.
12. 
A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.
13. 
A bird cannot roost but on one branch. a mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.
14. 
A bird does not sing because he has the answer to something, he sings because he has a song.
15. 
A bird in your hand is worth more than 100 in the forest.
16. 
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
17. 
A bit of fragrance always sticks to the hand that gives you roses.
18. 
A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.
19. 
A blind cat catches only a dead rat.
20. 
A book holds a house of gold.
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